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Did you ever go and eat a bag of pure sugar? Or rather a bag of sweets, which usually contain other stuff, not just sugar. We're not addicted to sugar, the "su
by rolisz 1y ago
Did you ever go and eat a bag of pure sugar? Or rather a bag of sweets, which usually contain other stuff, not just sugar.
We're not addicted to sugar, the "sugar cravings" are mostly to combos of carbs and fats.
Eating enough turns off my "sugar cravings". Eating lots of protein makes any craving for sugar disappear (I survived last Christmas by not eating any cakes, just lots of meat).
- hshdhdhehd 1y agoSure, and doing chores around the house or walking the dog cures my phone cravings.
- trvz 1y agoThe cakes may have been healthier.
- humlex 1y agoThats my philosophy too. If you're full, you have no cravings at all. I have zero sugar cravings unless im really hungry, at which point real food is still the better option. Focusing on what you Should eat (nuts, berries, greens, etc) is much more rewarding than obsessing over what not to eat.
- saagarjha 1y agoYou may be surprised how close many candies are to being pure sugar with food coloring.
- CaptainOfCoit 1y ago> You may be surprised how close many candies are to being pure sugar with food coloring. Grab a fistful of whatever candy you're thinking about when you say that and put it in your mouth. Then once you've done that, try doing the same with pure sugar. Tell me if you think you got different amounts of sugar in your mouth or not. It's not the first time I hear this soundbite, and while it perhaps sounds cool as a TikTok comment, it really doesn't make much sense in reality.
- saagarjha 1y agoYou can literally read the nutrition facts for Nerds or Jolly Rancher lol
- CaptainOfCoit 1y agoI literally don't have those in my country :) Based on labels I found online, seems "Jolly Rancher" is more or less 61% sugar of its total weight.
- saagarjha 1y agoI'm not sure what you're looking at, the nutrition labels I see are like 17g sugar out of an 18g serving size
- CaptainOfCoit 1y agoFrom https://www.myfooddiary.com/foods/143911/jolly-rancher-hard-candy https://www.myfooddiary.com/foods/143911/jolly-rancher-hard-... (maybe the wrong one?) Then I did something like "3 pieces weigh 18g with ~11g total sugars and 17g total carbs so about 61% sugars"
- saagarjha 1y agoAh yes I you're right, I was reading too quickly and read the carbs as sugar. That said having candies that are like 60-70% sugar is basically sugar in my book, especially since the rest is corn syrup.
- CaptainOfCoit 1y agoHence my tiredness of that soundbite, because it's almost never actually true. But I guess it depends on if you see "60% of contents is sugar" as "pure sugar with food coloring" or not, at least for me it's a difference but I understand for others it's basically the same.
- a_wild_dandan 1y agoHow does having management strategies over an alleged addiction imply that it isn’t an addiction?
- baconbrand 1y agoI take it you are unfamiliar with the “do not get addicted to water” speech in Mad Max.
- viraptor 1y ago> We're not addicted to sugar, (...) Eating enough turns off my "sugar cravings". Glad it works for you, but that's not universal. I'm pretty much addicted to sugar, regardless of what else I eat. So I have to not buy it in the first place - that way it's just not available.
- baconbrand 1y agoI think this might be an issue that’s independent of sugar. Something something dopamine and serotonin. I also do not have issues with sugary foods, but I did in the past when my life was more stressful.
- carlosjobim 1y agoLook down the cart of your fellow shoppers the next time you go to the super market. Odds are some of them will have only huge bottles of sugar drink, sugar cereals and cookies.